Shubert said the Iwo Jima Memorial was dreamed up and built by private citizens in WaKeeney — Bob Funk, Kenny Deutscher and Jim Funk. The silhouette was designed by a resident of Warner Ranch by ...

Then, the celebration moved to Eisenhower Park to rededicate the Iwo Jima Memorial. People gather for the rededication of WaKeeney’s Iwo Jima Statute on Nov. 11, 2024. (Courtesy City of WaKeeney) ...

Crews started moving in this morning (Tuesday, August 15) to begin work to give the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial -- also known as the Iwo Jima memorial -- a facelift. The work will limit public ...

A nonprofit "friends" group has formed to work with the National Park Service and Marine Corps representatives to raise funds to improve the Iwo Jima monument, which was dedicated in 1954 and pays ...

Iwo Jima A controversy has arisen over an attempt by the Air Force to erect a monument near the Iwo Jima Memorial. The Marines object to its placement so close to the statue honoring their World ...

Iwo Jima vet James Scotella recounts raising of American flag 02:35. It was the morning of Feb. 19, 1945 and 19-year-old Corporal James Scotella had his orders: to invade the island of Iwo Jima.

For more than half a century, Joe Bruni stayed silent about the “hellish day on the bloody sulfuric sands” that took his childhood friend at Iwo Jima. “If Tom Brokaw called us the greatest ...

But somebody, or more likely several somebodies, shinnied up the flagpole at the city’s Iwo Jima Memorial and swiped the American flag. Skip to content NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at Noon ...

The world was reeling, burning, exploding, dying, screaming. “U.S. Troops Reported To Have Landed On Corrigedor and Iwo Island,” The Herald News headline read on February 17.

The citizens built the memorial, which American Legion Moore Post #197 formally dedicated on Nov. 9, 2007. It was originally placed on private property along Interstate 70 at WaKeeney Exit 128.